Against the Donatists / Optatus ; translated with notes and introduction by Mark J. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Optatus, Saint, Bp. of Mela, author.

Contributor:

Edwards, M. J. (Mark J.)

Series:

Translated texts for historians ; 27.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Donatists.

Church history.

Africa, North--Church history.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, (1), 222 pages)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

Translated from the Latin.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Optatus, Bishop of Milevis in North Africa in the late fourth century, wrote a detailed refutation of Donatist claims to be the one true and righteous church, an ark of purity in a world which was still corrupt despite Constantine's support for Christianity. This new translation of Optatus's work is the first since 1917, and makes full use of modern scholarship in its annotation and Introduction. Professor Mark J. Edwards is Tutor in Theology at Christ Church College, Oxford. His previous publications include Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012) and Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity (2012) Publisher description

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

Electronic reproduction. 2011.

ISBN:

9781789628449

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.